A true five-star plugin

This review isn’t about functionality — it’s about support.

The Achilles heel of WordPress (or for that matter, any OSS system with a plugin architecture) is the dead zone you land in when two plugins conflict. The end user is reduced to Stone Age advice: “Find the offending plugin by deactivating them all, then reactivate one by one until you find the problem.”

OK, what then? Aside from the very 1920s, car-broken-down-and-driver-better-have-her-own-mechanic-on-board nature of this “debugging” process, who fixes the problem if you can even find it? Assuming you can contact the plugin authors, it’s a good bet one will blame the other. Catch-22.

Unless you are using this plugin. Something (I still don’t understand what) happened between AMP and All-In-One-SEO. AMP’s author, @westonruter, moved mountains to help me.

The author delivered more than simple above-and-beyond. This was better support than one can buy for commerical software and represents the absolute best of OSS both technically and in terms of community.

You know that little catch in your brain you have when you are deciding whether or not to use a plugin: “What incompatibilities am I signing up for?” “What happens if the author moves on?” “How skillful is the author?” “Am I prepared to live with this code for the long term?

I’m here to tell you you don’t have to think twice about using the AMP plugin, You can be secure in the knowledge that the author really gives a damn and is there for the community.

If ever there was a plugin that deserved five stars, this one is it.

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